Spring football is just weeks away with Michigan football beginning spring sessions on March 18. Other teams will be starting earlier and analysts are starting to piece together how good they think ...

Yesterday we presented complete results for the recent Baseball America Dream Draft, which was comprised of 360 players selected for future value. To review, a dozen BA staffers participated in a ...

The singular value decomposition is widely used to approximate data matrices with lower rank matrices. Feng and He [Ann. Appl. Stat. 3 (2009) 1634-1654] developed tests on dimensionality of the mean ...

Have you ever found yourself frustrated by Excel’s inability to handle ties in rankings without creating gaps in the sequence? Imagine analyzing employee salaries or sales performance, only to ...

Many authors have dealt with the problem of extending ordinary two-sample rank tests to cases where censoring occurs. Albers and Akritas (1987) proposed simple tests for this purpose, based on the ...

Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller answers whether Google uses Google Analytics data (like bounce rate and time on site) as well as whether Google uses Chrome browser data for ranking purposes. His ...